Jesus Explains Purgatory

Jesus Explains Purgatory

(CEV) "The Notebooks 1943", p. 392

Jesus says: "I want to explain to you what Purgatory is and what it consists of. And I will explain it to you, in a way that will provoke many who think they are the repositories of the knowledge of the hereafter and are not. "The souls immersed in those flames suffer only from love."

Not undeserving of possessing the Light, but not worthy to enter therein immediately either, into the Kingdom of Light, these, on presenting themselves to God, are assailed by the Light. It is a brief, advance blessedness which makes them certain of their salvation and aware of what their eternity will be like and knowledgeable regarding what they did to their souls, defrauding them of years of blessed possession of God. Then, immersed in the place of purgation, they are assailed by the flames of expiation.

Those who speak of Purgatory are right in this. But where they are not right is in wanting to apply different names to those flames. They are a fire of Love. They purify by inflaming souls with love. They give Love because, when the soul has therein attained the love it did not attain on earth, it is freed from them and joined to Love in Heaven.

It strikes you as a doctrine different from the familiar one, doesn't it? But reflect."What does the Triune God want for the souls created by Him? Good. What feelings does the One who wants Good for a creature have for the creature? Feelings of love.

What are the first and second commandments, the two most important ones, the ones regarding which I said that there were no others greater and that in them was the key to reaching eternal life? It is the commandment of love: 'Love God with all your strength; love your neighbor as yourself.' Through my mouth and that of the prophets and saints, what have I said on numberless occasions? That Charity is the greatest form of absolution. Charity consumes the sins and the weaknesses of man, for whoever loves lives in God, and in living in God he sins little, and if he sins, he immediately repents, and for whoever repents there is the forgiveness of the Most High.

What did souls fail in? In Love. If they had loved much, they would have committed few and slight sins, connected with your weakness and imperfection. But they would never have reached the conscious obstinacy in even venial sin. They would have endeavored not to grieve their Love, and Love, seeing their good will, would have absolved them even of the venial sins committed.

How is reparation made for a sin, even on earth? By expiating it, and, if one can scarcely do so, through the means whereby it was committed. With the one who has done damage, by restoring what he has taken away with overbearance. With the one who has defamed, by retracting the defamation, and so on. Now, if poor human justice wants this, won't the holy Justice of God want it? And what means will God use to obtain reparation?

Himself-that is, Love-and by demanding love. This God, whom you have offended and who loves you in a fatherly way and who wants to unite Himself to his creatures, leads you to obtain this union through Himself.

Everything hinges on Love, Maria [Valtorta], except for the real 'dead', the damned. For these 'dead ones' Love, too, is dead. But for the three realms-the heaviest one: the Earth; the one where the weight of matter is abolished, but not of the soul weighed down by sin: Purgatory; and, finally, the one where the inhabitants share with their Father the spiritual nature which frees them from every encumbrance -the motor is Love.

It is by loving on earth that you work for Heaven. It is by loving in Purgatory that you conquer Heaven, which in life you were unable to merit. It is by loving in Paradise that you enjoy Heaven. When a soul is in Purgatory, it does nothing but love, reflect, and repent in the light of Love, which for its sake has ignited those flames, which are already God, but which conceal God from it for its punishment. This is the torment. The soul recalls the vision of God received in the private judgment. It bears that memory with it, and since having only glimpsed God is a joy surpassing every created thing, the soul, is anxious to experience that joy again. That memory of God and that ray of light which have assailed it in its appearance before God make the soul 'see' the true significance of the faults committed against its Good, and this `seeing,' together with the thought that because of those faults it has voluntarily deprived itself of the possession of Heaven and of union with God for years or centuries, constitutes its purgative affliction.

Love, and the certainty of having offended Love, is the torment of those being purged. The more a soul has been at fault in life, the more it is as if blinded by spiritual cataracts which make knowing and reaching that perfect loving repentance which is the first factor for its purgation and entry into the Kingdom of God more difficult for it. The more a soul has oppressed it with sin, the more love is weighed down in its living and rendered sluggish. As it is cleansed by the power of Love, its resurrection to love is accelerated and, consequently, its conquest of Love, which is completed at the moment when, with the end of expiation and the reaching of the perfection of love, it is admitted into the City of God.

It is necessary to pray a lot so that these, souls, that suffer to reach Joy, may be swift in attaining the perfect love which absolves them and unites them to Me. Your prayers and your acts of intercession are as many increases in loving fire. They increase the burning. But-oh, blessed torment!--they also increase the capacity for loving. They speed up the process of purgation. They raise the souls immersed in that fire to higher and higher degrees. They carry them to the threshold of the Light. They open the gates to Light, finally, and introduce the soul into Heaven.

To each of these operations, provoked by your charity towards those who have preceded you into the second life, there corresponds a leap in charity for you. The charity of God, who thanks you for providing for his children in affliction, and the charity of the afflicted, who thank you for working to introduce them into the joy of God. Never do your loved ones love you so much as after earthly death, for their love is now infused with the Light of God, and in this Light they understand how you love them and how they should have loved you.

They can no longer say words to you that ask for forgiveness and provide love. But they say them to Me for you, and I take to you these words of your dead, who are now able to see and love you as they should. I take them to you together with their request for love and their blessing. A blessing already valid from Purgatory on, for it is already infused with the inflamed Charity which burns and purifies them. Perfectly valid, later, from the moment when, freed, they come to meet you on the threshold of Life or rejoin you therein, if you have already preceded them into the Kingdom of Love."

Maria Valtorta: The Notebooks

"These Notebooks belong to a category of mystical literature which the Catholic Church has long been familiar with: that of so-called “private revelations." A private revelation is not binding for the faith of Christians, but its value is to be measured by its capacity to instruct and inflame souls, spurring them to love God more and apply divine teachings to their everyday lives. In the confidence—and the conviction—that this work superabounds in these inspired qualities, we offer it for the spiritual nourishment of readers. —David Murray

Content taken from the works of Maria Valtorta with the permission of the "Centro Editoriale Valtortiano Srl"- Viale Piscicelli, 89/91 - 03036 Isola del Liri, (FR - Italy), www.mariavaltorta.com, which has all the rights upon Valtorta's Works.

Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory

Located in the back of the Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio on the banks of the Tiber, the tiny century-old Piccolo Museo Del Purgatorio, or "Museum of the Holy Souls in Purgatory," holds a collection of bibles, prayer books, tabletops, and articles of clothing said to have been singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The soul is stranded in purgatory until it atones for its sins, but can hasten its ascent to heaven through the prayers of loved ones still on earth. The scorched handprints and other burn-marks collected in this museum are believed to be the product of souls begging their earth-bound loved ones to pray harder.

Though not mentioned in the Bible, the idea of purgatory is a very old part of the Catholic faith, dating back to at least the 11th century. The notion that trapped souls might need to be freed comes from a story allegedly told to the Abbott Odilo of Cluny by a monk returning from the Holy Land. He told the Abbott how his ship had been wrecked, and he had been cast ashore on a mysterious island. A hermit who lived on the island related his own story of a mysterious chasm, from which burst forth demonic flames and the agonized screams of trapped souls. He pointed out that the demons were always complaining about losing souls when the living prayed or gave alms to the poor on their behalf.

The freeing of these trapped souls became a priority for the Church, and for family members grieving dead loved ones. November 2 was established as All Soul's Day, whereon it was believed that prayers by the living could intercede on behalf of the faithful dead who had died without absolution, or babies who had died before baptism, thus freeing them for Heaven. (According to Catholic doctrine, one cannot go to hell from purgatory.)

Victor Jouet, the collector and French missionary, was supposedly inspired to build this purgatorial museum after a fire destroyed a portion of the original Chiesa del Sacro Cuore del Suffragio, leaving behind the scorched image of a face that he believed to be a trapped soul.

"Mother of God, Co-Redemptrix of the world, pray for us"

Give a joy to the suffering Souls of the Purgatory. Pray this simple prayer frequently and with faith. The blessed Souls, in return for your spiritual charity, will pray God for you and your loved ones to reach eternal life.

Maria Valtorta was born in 1897 and died in 1961 and she had visions and apparitions mostly during the period 1943 through 1947. During these Jesus appeared to her and literally transported Maria in time and space back to the time of Jesus. Maria "sees, hears" and writes it all down. She is not part of the scenes, just "a fly on the wall" so to speak. After some of the Visions Jesus literally "dictated" a lesson/tutorial to better understanding WHAT is in the Visions, and these dictations Maria wrote down.

IMPORTANT, READ!

PROTECT YOUR HOME WITH THE HOLY FAMILY: JOSEPH, JESUS and MARY

Message of God the Father: "My son, Listen and write. I recommend (translation) that this message be communicated to everyone and everywhere that you have preached in United States and in Canada. Remember the night when Padre Pio brought you into Heaven to see the Holy Family. It was a teaching for you and for the people who have heard you. It was also a sign to recall the night when my Beloved Son Jesus was born into the world. Remember how my Evangelist Matthew wrote by the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit how the star stopped over the place where My Baby Son Jesus was born. It was a sign for the Wise men. Today, it is a sign for you and for all Christians and for all the nations. The Holy Family is a sign for every family, and we should model ourselves after them. I recommend (translation) that every family, who receives this message, should have a representation of the Holy Family in their home. It can be an Icon or a statue of the Holy Family, or a permanent Manger in a center place in the home. The representation must be blessed and consecrated by a priest. As the star, followed by the Wise men, stopped over the Manger, the chastisement from the sky will not hit the Christians families devoted and protected by the Holy Family. The fire from the sky is a chastisement for the horrible crime of abortion and the culture of death, the sexual perversion, and the cupidity (lust) regarding the identity of man and woman. My children seek their perverted sins more than Eternal life. The increasing blasphemies and persecution of my just people offend Me. The Arm of my Justice will come now. They do not hear my Divine Mercy. I must now let many plagues happen in order to save the most people that I can from the slavery of Satan. Send this message to everyone. I have given Saint Joseph, My representative on earth, as a protector of the Holy Family, the authority to protect the Church which is the body of Christ. He will be the protector during the trials of this time. The Immaculate Heart of My daughter Mary and the Sacred Heart of my Beloved Son Jesus, with the Chaste and Pure Heart of Saint Joseph, will be the shield of your home, your family, and your Refuge during the events to come. My Words are my blessing over all of you. Whoever will act according to my Will, will be safe. The powerful love of the Holy Family will be manifested to all." —Tuesday, October 30, 2018 (Fr. Michel Rodrigue message)

Go to Mass on the first Friday of the month, have a Confession (needed if your soul is in mortal sin), receive the Holy Eucharist, for nine consecutive months without skipping one first Friday (or you have to start over).

I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all who on the First Saturday of five consecutive months confess their sins, receive Holy Communion, recite five decades of the Rosary, and keep me company for fifteen minutes...

The Magnificent Promises: "The soul who prays them will suffer no Purgatory. The soul who prays the 12 Year Prayer will be made conscious of his death one month in advance and more..."

Just consider these benefits:

No sudden, violent, by air, land, sea accident, by drug, by war, by natural disasters Death. You will be 100% prepared and at peace. The Grace of God, in Person and through the Sacraments, will assist you at the very last instant of your life on Earth. Read the Magnificent Promises. Take advantage of these Opportunities of Sure Salvation that death cannot destroy. You are destined to Heaven. Nothing on Earth deserves your ambition:SAVE YOUR SOUL.

Just pray if you are in doubt or you do not understand what happened to Pope Benedict and the role of Pope Francis (he is pope even if you may not see him as such) and the confusion in the Catholic Church and in the world. The enemies of the Church: the children of darkness are smarter than the children of Light, they want to destroy what Jesus created. Do not help them by criticizing the actual Pope and the Consecrated ones, be careful about what you read in the news or on Internet. Pray, Pray, Pray, with sincere heart for discernment to understand the hidden side of the unfolding events in these end times. Ask God and the Blessed Mother to help you know the truth and to be at peace. Pay attention to the words of the Consecration, during Mass. The one (it can be a Pope, a Cardinal, a Bishop, a Priest), who changes those words has embraced heresy and Jesus is not present on the altar. Leave that church and look for a traditional Priest. Do not let satan and his demons fool you. The next pope will serve the antichrist.

Avoid Sacrileges At Holy Mass

In 1950, 87% believed in the Real Presence. Today, that number has plummeted to a mere 34%. The abusive and hurried manner in which the practice of Communion in the hand was imposed after Vatican II lead to a widespread lack of reverence for the Eucharist and caused great pain for many in the Church. It disoriented many people, who with real justification — especially in light of the recent and overwhelming loss of faith in the Eucharist as the real presence — feared that the very heart of Catholic belief had been compromised. (Read More)

"No more Communion in the hand, no more lay to distribute Communion because this sacrilege is causing the loss of many souls!"

"Children of My Heart, the Peace of the Lord be with you all. My little ones, many blasphemies are being committed with the Holy Eucharist. My Son is reviled in His Divinity through the impure and unworthy hands of My lay children. As mother of the son of God and Mother of humanity, I ask My beloved children, to put an end to this abomination! No more of extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist, no more of Communions in the hand! The Body and Blood of my Son, are outraged by many lay people who give themselves tasks that belong only to priests and other consecrated Ministers such as: the Pope, the Cardinals and Bishops. No hand that has not been consecrated through the ministerial Priesthood, can touch My Son...

Little children, it is impressive the amount of Eucharistic violations that are committed by those defined in this way: Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist. Many of my lay children with the complacency of the Priest, exercise the Ministry of the Eucharist in many churches; their pride is common in many of them and it is reaching the point where many of the decisions that are taken by the priest, are being delegated to the laity. What a suffering I feel in My Heart, in seeing that many of My lay children desecrate sacred objects, taking from the Tabernacles, with their unworthy hands, the Cup where the consecrated hosts are present. I say to you: Only the consecrated hands of My beloved ones can touch the Chalice with the Consecrated Hosts, and only their hands may distribute Communion!

I beseech you beloved Children (the Priest): do not delegate anymore this sacred Ministry to My lay sons; do not make them guilty of sinning. Leave your conveniences and fulfill the Ministerial Priesthood that has been conferred on you! I ask my beloved ones: what are you going to respond tomorrow to My Father, for all the abuses and the outrages that many of you are committing with the Divinity of His Son? Heaven is crying with Me, in seeing how outraged and disfigured Jesus is in the Blessed Sacrament in many of His Houses.

My opponent enjoys any desecration that My Son receives. Many Consecrated Hosts get lost to end up into satanic churches for the celebration of black masses. My opponent has infiltrated in many of my Son's Houses, many extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist that betray Him by stealing consecrated hosts which are used to perform satanic cults. Thousands of Consecrated Hosts are sold and depending on the Minister of the Church who consecrated Them, in order to determine their price. A Consecrated Host by the Pope, by a Cardinal or by a Bishop, is sold at a high price and with these, they make a satanic special rite to cause damage to the Eucharistic Body of my Son, represented in His Church.

Satanists are destroying religious and priestly communities, with these Hosts Consecrated by the high rank Ministers of the Church. My beloved ones, I ask you to stop this outrage to the Divinity of My Son that is being carried out by my lay children. Every insult and desecration that My Son receives is a sword piercing My Heart. Many of my favorites lie in hell who in life have allowed these abuses to the Divinity of My Son, and with them many lay people, extraordinary ministers, whose spiritual pride did not allow them to repair and to ask for forgiveness from God for such a vile abuse. As Mother of the consecrated souls in my dedication as Mystic Rose, I ask you with all My Heart, My beloved children, to stop as soon as possible this abuse and outrage that is being committed against my Son's Divinity, because tomorrow you do not have to lament from it. Little children, no more Communion in the hand, no more lay to distribute the Communion, because this sacrilege is causing the loss of many souls! Your Mother, Maria the Mystic Rose."

Appeals of Mary the Mystical Rose to Her beloved children and to God’s people —January 27 2016

Avoid Sacrileges AT CHURCH

“The church is God's house. It is forbidden for men to enter here with bare arms and wearing shorts. It is forbidden for women to enter wearing trousers, bare headed, with short, low-necked or sleeveless dresses —St. Father Pio.”

Dress Properly the Day of your Wedding

Dress Properly in God's House

Give Honor to God in His House

Wash Your Soulwith the SACRAMENT of CONFESSION

Go to have a Confession, cleanse your soul. Save your soul! No need to live with the big rock of your sins tormenting you all your life. It is easy: see a Catholic priest. Give yourself a new beginning before it is too late.

"If you knew, how you shine after having properly approached the Sacrament of Confession.

As He (Jesus) is in the Confessional and where He listens to every word, sees in every corner of your heart and He is longing to bestow the Graces inherent to His forgiveness.

My children, while My Son is truly present hidden behind the person of the Priest Confessor, equally real is the Grace of Absolution and of Forgiveness from the Lord."— Maria, Mother of Jesus

Parents, be very attentive!!

"Parents, be very attentive of your children as my adversary wants to destroy families. Be very careful with what your children see, read, listen and play. I tell you this because the instruments of Evil, are using technology to slowly poisoning young souls through games, music, movies, videos, TV shows and literature loaded with subliminal messages that are driving many to spiritual and even physical death"

"Parents, correct the ways if your family, have much dialogue with your children, make time to listen to them as many homes are being lost due to lack of love, dialogue, understanding and most specially for not inviting God. Take God back into your homes, pray my Holy Rosary, as the family that prays together stays together."

Do not Put Tattoo Marks on Yourselves

"My children, to tattoo your bodies is a pagan practice that goes against God's Holy Word which reads: Do not lacerate your bodies for the dead, and do not tattoo yourselves (Leviticus 19,28). Remember that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit and you should not defile, destroy or burn it. I remind you that all those body markings come from my adversary and are evil instruments that only seek to defile God's creation and take you away from the path of salvation." —Mary Mother of Jesus

NO game where one requests information from the afterlife is good

"My children, playing ghosts, charlie – charlie, or scissors and spiral notepad are the same as playing ouija. It is same as opening your soul's doors so that my adversary and his demons can enter and possess you. NO game where one requests information from the afterlife is good. Don't think that by invoking the souls of your departed loved ones it will be them who will come responding to your call. I tell you that by doing this what you are opening are the doors of Hell. You know very well that my adversary is astute and disguises as an Angel of light to mislead you in order to take your soul. Many children and young adults are being trapped by my adversary by playing games where they request information and assistance form occult sources. My little children, when playing those apparently innocent games what you are really doing is opening your soul to my adversary so that he may possess you." —Mary Mother of Jesus

Parents, pay much attention to the video games your children play

"My little children, when playing those apparently innocent games what you are really doing is opening your soul to my adversary so that he may possess you. Parents, pay much attention to the video games that your children play as many of them are filled with occult rituals and actions with the sole purpose of opening the minds of your children and youth to violence, trespassing, sex, drugs, homosexuality, prostitution and murder." —Mary Mother of Jesus

Control the cartoons that your children watch

"[Parents] control the cartoons that your children watch as many are loaded with subliminal messages of violence, sex and all other sins of the flesh that will lead your children to lose their moral and spiritual values, and the saddest of all: the distancing from God and family. Awaken from your passiveness parents! Don't continue to be so permissive with your children. Remember that you are living in times of darkness and must be attentive with all that your children see, play read and listen. This so that tomorrow you won’t regret their misbehavior, and worse losing their souls!." —Mary Mother of Jesus

Act of Consecration to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

ALL KNEEL AND PRAY TOGETHER.O Sacred Heart of Jesus who made known to St. Margaret Mary Your great desire to reign over Christian families we are gathered here today to proclaim Your complete dominion over our family. From now on we promise to lead a Christlike life: we will strive to develop in our home all the virtues which bring with them the peace that You promised and we will not compromise with the spirit of secularism which You have so strongly denounced.

You will rule over our minds through our deep and living faith. You will be King of our hearts by our generous love for You; and we will cultivate this love by the frequent reception of You in Holy Communion.

Divine Heart of Jesus, preside over our family gatherings; bless all our family undertakings, both spiritual and temporal. Sanctify our joys and comfort us in our sorrows. If any member of our family should have the misfortune to offend You seriously, please remind him, O Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Your infinite love and mercy for the penitent sinner.

And when the hour of separation comes, when death brings its sorrows into our family, whether we go or whether we stay, we humbly accept Your divine will. At the same time we will console and comfort ourselves with the thought that the time will come when our whole family will be united lovingly with You in heaven forever. There we shall sing a hymn of praise to the infinite mercy and love of Your Sacred Heart.

We ask the Immaculate Heart of Mary and our glorious protector, St. Joseph, to offer You this family consecration of ours. May the memory of this consecration be with us always.

We will say one Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be for the intentions of the Holy Father and for absent members, living and dead.

Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

0 Virgin Mary, most powerful Mother of Mercy, Queen of Heaven and earth, in accordance with your wish made known at Fatima, I consecrate myself today to your Immaculate Heart. To you I entrust all that I have, all that I am. Reign over me, dearest Mother, that I may be yours in prosperity, in adversity, in joy and in sorrow, in health and in sickness, in life and in death.

Most compassionate Heart of Mary, Queen of Virgins, watch over my mind and heart and preserve me from the deluge of impurity which you lamented so sorrowfully at Fatima. I want to be pure like you. I want to atone for the many crimes committed against Jesus and you. I want to call down upon this country and the whole world the peace of God in justice and charity.

Mindful of this consecration, I now promise to strive to imitate you by the practice of the Christian virtues without regard for human respect. I resolve to receive Holy Communion on the first Saturday of every month when possible, and to offer daily five decades of the Rosary, with all my sacrifices in the spirit of penance and reparation. Amen.

I, . . ., a faithless sinner, renew and ratify today in thy Heart, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my Baptism; I renounce forever Satan, his pomps and works; and I give myself entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more faithful to Him than I have ever been before.

Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, in the presence of all the heavenly court, I choose thee this day for my Mother and Mistress. I deliver and consecrate to thee, and to thy Immaculate Heart, as thy child and slave of love, my body and soul, my goods, both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my good actions, past, present and future; leaving to thee the entire and full right of disposing of me, and all that belongs to me, without exception, according to thy good pleasure, for the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity. Amen.

Catholics be prepared. Go to Confession, receive the Holy Eucharist; pray the Holy Rosary daily to keep the faith. Seek the LORD, time is running out. Mankind is entering the Great Tribulation: cataclysms, plagues, WW3, One World Order, antichrist, to devastate our planet. Non-Catholics: followThe 10 Commandments

Mother Mary, "Refuge of Holy Love" pray for us

"I will refuse no one their chance to petition My Heart under this title. None will be left unaided. My special attention rests upon those devoted to Me as Refuge of Holy Love."

Mother Mary, "Protectress of the Faith" protect my faith

"Today, I ask clergy and religious to rely upon the Protectress of the Faith to safeguard the treasure of their vocations which are so greatly under attack."